Natalia M. Toscano (she/ella) is a Chicana/o/x studies scholar researching the intersections of social movements, transnationalism, and political imagination. Her dissertation traces the history of exchange between Chicana/o/x communities and the Ejerecito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN or Zapatista)—an Indigenous rebel organization from the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. By analyzing community archives and oral histories of Chicana/o/x organizers, writers, and artists, Natalia’s dissertation examines the strategies of accompaniment used by Chicanx and Zapatista communities to critique the global neoliberal turn and build pluriversal and dignified lives. Broadly, her research theorizes Chicanx political imaginations rooted in anti-capitalist and decolonial horizons.

In the spirit of creating community spaces of self-determination, Natalia is a member of the Chicanx World Making and Futurities project, a do-it-yourself rasquache multi-media and popular education collective. Additionally, she serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief for Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal.